This year´s artist in Germany´s pavillon in Venice Biennale was Christoph
Schlingensief, whose theatre project Via Intollerranza II will be shown also in
Helsingin Juhlaviikot in National Theatre - only two evenings 24.8 and 25.8.

Schlingensief was "enfant terrible" who started his career by directing super8 -films as a teenager and has done a lifetime work of several amazingly provocative underground films, which refer iconoclastically to Fassbinder, trash films, horror and religious films, political history etc. He dedicated his later life to opera productions (especially Wagner) and designing the German pavillon as a vivid church of the life and death, where the hare at the altar and the chalk board seemed to be hommages to Joseph Beuys´s use of the materials of the world. Fluxus and Beuys´s idea of "social sculpture" were important to him.

In Via Intollerranza II an opera house is been build in Burkina Faso. This happened also in real life - you might say in "a herzogian" way. Be quick if you want to get a ticket. The artist is surprisingly active if we bear in mind that he died in 2010.

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